French authorities order evacuation of almost 4,000 people from Lacanau resort amid return of heatwave

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The evacuation of nearly 4,000 people from tourist sites on France’s Atlantic coast is under way as the return of winds and extreme heat jeopardised firefighters’ battles to contain wildfires raging to the west of Bordeaux.

The precautionary evacuation order, which covers campsites, holiday villages and other tourist accommodation around the resort of Lacanau, exacerbated a wildfire emergency described by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as the “toughest” situation the country had dealt with “since the second world war”.

The 20-year-old crypto bro likes to keep a low profile. He could still be forced to testify before the House oversight committee

Unlike his garrulous father, Barron Trump seems to be a man of few words. The president’s youngest son has been busy flogging energy drinks and making millions from cryptocurrency schemes, but he’s not big on public speaking. Indeed, the best-known clip of him talking is probably from when he was four years old and said “I like my suitcase” in a Slovenian accent.

Still, while 20-year-old Barron Trump might prefer to stay behind the scenes, he may find himself hauled in front of Congress and forced to answer some difficult questions. Last week, Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman and a member of the House oversight committee, called for Barron to testify about his alleged connections to the toxic influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate. The Tate brothers, who have become household names by monetising misogyny, were recently arrested in Miami, just before Andrew was due to co-host a bare-knuckle boxing event. They’re now fighting extradition to the UK, and face allegations of rape, assault, trafficking and offences relating to “indecent images of a child and extreme pornography”. They deny these charges.

Oscar Onley’s pre-race injury presaged three bleak weeks and new director of racing knows he has his work cut out

Crashes, punctures and injuries ensured that the 2026 Tour de France campaign was one of the worst ever for the beleaguered Netcompany Ineos team. From the first stage on, when Dave Brailsford’s team came close to winning the team time trial in Montjuic, the 2026 Tour was, in the words of their director of racing, Geraint Thomas, “tough going”.

“I’m happy to not be racing any more, because I suffered way too much,” said Thomas, who has taken Brailsford’s place as the team’s frontman. “But it’s good to still be involved in the nitty-gritty of it.”

Shadow minister says there was no warning and ‘it looked and sounded like deliberate intimidation’

• Conservative MP accuses French navy of firing shots near him in Channel

It is not just the Russians firing on Brits in the English Channel; Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, has accused a French warship of firing “warning shots” near him while he was on a boat in the Channel monitoring small boat crossings.

In a post on social media, he says:

On the channel today monitoring illegal migrant crossings … as I was being interviewed by the BBC just now a French warship approached close and fired 17 live rounds behind us. There was no notice or training exercise in place. Felt like warning shots or attempted intimidation

On the crisis in prison places, this has been a long time coming. We did some things, as I said [see 10.11am], it wasn’t enough, and I’m sorry about that.

But I can’t fix the past, but what I can do is come up with solutions for now, and for tomorrow.

This was something which we were doing in government. We had plans to rent prison places, just like Sweden has done with Estonia, so that we didn’t have to just release these sorts of violent criminals early. We could have put them in other countries.

If everybody says ‘no prison near me’, we won’t get these [prison places] built, so this is something the public can help with … We cannot say ‘no’ to every potential site for a prison.

• Mancini replaces Gattuso for second spell in charge

• Ranieri takes over from Paolo Maldini in overseeing role

Roberto Mancini has agreed to be Italy head coach for a second time, the president of the Italian Football ​Federation (FIGC), Giovanni Malagò said on Tuesday, also confirming Claudio Ranieri would take over as technical director.

Mancini replaces Gennaro Gattuso, who ⁠left the post in April after Italy failed to qualify for a third World Cup in succession, and returns to a job he held between 2018 and 2023. He led the national team to European Championship glory in 2021 with a penalty shootout victory over England at Wembley but then failed to reach the 2022 World Cup and a slow start to Euro 2024 qualifying. In total, Mancini managed Italy for 58 matches during his first spell and at club level has managed Inter, Fiorentina and Manchester City, where he spent three years and guided them to their first Premier League title in 2011-12.

Waste firm Veolia pays £27k after ‘Yes It’s A Genocide’ banner taken by Greater London Authority was destroyed

The campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,000 in compensation after a giant banner it displayed in Parliament Square saying “Yes It’s A Genocide” was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed.

Representatives of the GLA arrived on the scene in central London and confiscated the 40-metre by 40-metre banner after it was unfurled on 4 December 2024, just over a year after Israel began its assault on Gaza after the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas.

De fractievoorzitter van de Amsterdamse BIJ1-fractie, Tofik Dibi, heeft schulden en leek voor even onvindbaar. Toen dook hij weer op met een online bericht, al blijven er veel vraagtekens staan. De situatie is tekenend voor de afgelopen jaren binnen de partij, waar het zowel landelijk als lokaal van ophef naar ophef gaat.

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Mount Takao (高尾山)

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Hindley Street, Adelaide CBD

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The SAHMRI building and Bragg Centre form part of the medical research precinct on North Terrace, Adelaide CBD

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Gray Street, Adelaide CBD

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Ondanks de lichte neerslag van afgelopen week en de gebruikelijke temperatuur voor eind juli, is het neerslagtekort in Nederland verder toegenomen. Het tekort ligt ver boven het gemiddelde voor deze periode van het jaar, blijkt uit de nieuwste droogtemonitor van Rijkswaterstaat. Ook zijn de grondwaterstanden op veel plaatsen laag tot zeer laag.

In grote delen van het land hebben de natuur en de landbouw last van de droogte. Gewassen groeien minder goed en er kan schade ontstaan. Vooral in de hogere delen van het land en in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant en Limburg zijn de gevolgen van de droogte groot. Gebieden die niet afhankelijk zijn van grondwater ervaren minder problemen, zoals Flevoland en Friesland.

Ook de scheepvaart ondervindt steeds meer gevolgen. De afvoer van de Rijn daalt verder, waardoor de al geringe vaardiepte op de Rijntakken langzaam verder afneemt. De kwaliteit van het water wordt ook slechter, wat kan leiden tot blauwalg en vissterfte.

DEVENTER (ANP) - De haven van Deventer is vanaf zaterdag voor onbepaalde tijd dicht. De gemeente heeft aangekondigd dat de sluis dan niet meer opengaat, omdat de waterstand in de IJssel naar verwachting onder een kritieke grens zakt. Schepen moeten vrijdagavond de binnenhaven hebben verlaten, anders zitten ze voorlopig vast in Deventer.

Acht jaar geleden moest de gemeente de haven ook sluiten door de lage waterstand in de IJssel. Enkele binnenvaartschepen die niet op tijd weg waren, zaten toen weken vast.

"We hebben ons te houden aan een vergunning van het waterschap", aldus een woordvoerder. Daarin staat dat de sluis niet meer open mag als de waterstand in de IJssel minder dan 45 centimeter boven NAP is. Het verschil met het waterpeil in de haven wordt dan zo groot dat de sluisdeuren onder de druk zouden kunnen bezwijken. "Het gesloten houden van de sluis is in de huidige situatie de veiligste oplossing." In de Deventer haven is het waterpeil 4,70 meter boven NAP, daarbuiten op de IJssel nu 0,65 meter.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York zijn dinsdag verdeeld begonnen. Beleggers bleven voorzichtig in afwachting van de resultaten van de grote techbedrijven Amazon, Microsoft, Apple en Facebook-moeder Meta, die later deze week naar buiten komen. Aandeelhouders zijn vooral benieuwd of de forse investeringen van deze bedrijven in kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) resultaten beginnen op te leveren.

Ook wordt uitgekeken naar het rentebesluit van de Federal Reserve. De Fed houdt de rente woensdag waarschijnlijk opnieuw onveranderd, al wordt niet uitgesloten dat er een verhoging kan komen om de hoge inflatie te bestrijden. President Donald Trump riep de Amerikaanse centrale bank maandag nog op de rente te verlagen om de economie te stimuleren.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,7 procent hoger op 52.555 punten. De brede S&P 500-index zakte 0,1 procent tot 7402 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq daalde 0,6 procent tot 24.773 punten.

Don’t use AI until you’re 40. “We have been so quick to treat access to new technology as an inevitability that we have failed to question whether every powerful tool should be placed in the hands of every developing mind the moment it becomes available.”

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